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Real Life isn't filtered? Tell that to the Chinese, or the North Koreans or the... Infact the English! I dare you to do a week waving union jacks and being very patriotic somehow you'll be considered a racist... You'll be told to shut up in the end! Real life is full of censorship so I have to disagree with that comment. Ideally, neither real life or the 'fake life of the Internet' should be censored but alas, this is the world we live in. Personally, I'm not a big fan of filtering, but then I am quite responsible with what I look at when at work. I know for a fact that people out there aren't so responsible, and I'm not talking about just the students. We all know there is a reason for Filters and that it WOULD be nicer without them, but some people would only timewaste or look at inappropriate material (even with filters we catch people doing pretty bad stuff online from time to time). As for the guy in that rant, he's probably disgruntled that he's been blocked from ebaying or something. So much so he wants to find another job!! boo-hoo. Perhaps he should get a job in tescos or at the local waste refuse, they have awesome Internet on-the-job there!

I hate the bell always under it when it goes off. I wonder if compensation is in order when we're old and deaf?!

If that ever happens get the guard, they pretty much HAVE to get you your seat since you reserved it, or if they prefer they upgrade you to first class for free. Their call! I'm not even joking, if you've got a reservation, you've paid for the seat in effect, so the guard can evict the person taking your seat (and even fine them if they get uppity) and you get the place you paid for!

There's too many amishes in this country!

Charlie Brooker is awesome

The angst!! Since I last read this thread it's derailed into a discussion about tits and people bending over. So much for me going off on one!

I'm not trying to mis-represent anyone. I'm just saying she's one of the pack of baying artists that complain that 'filesharers' aka naughty internet users should get some serious hassle. And I agree, real filesharers really do deserve to get shot. I produce dance music of which some is enjoyed by a niche group in Japan, it's sadenning to see my work pirated but that's just a reality of the current times, at least my music is enjoyed by people. However, the music industry is trying to deal with these filesharers a bit like a bull in a china shop. Have a good look at what steps the industry big wigs (no, not Lily Allen) are taking in order to damage our civil liberties so that they can remain using their outdated business models that do not work. To really understand what the heck I'm whinging about, have a good read of this excellent article by Rob Fahey. People like Lily Allen already have quite a bit of dosh and just add fuel to the stupid and quite frankly ridiculous proposals the industry bigwigs want to see for our country. People like her help push such proposals through, and in the short term it won't help even the small artists (like myself). The government will see statements like hers as 'yep, real artists out there want this, lets do it!' whereas there is little of a strong voice to retaliate, of which that voice is the end-user (us) who do not have quite the same strength of voice as people in the media do. Those artists that take the opposite stance, these guys are heroes. The sheer absurdity of the proposals that we can be directly booted off the Internet at the click of a fingers from someone at Sony or Geffen or whatever are things that shouldn't be ignored. This is something we should all be shouting about and if you're not then don't complain to me when you get cut off for file sharing, even if you wern't! Yes, something has to be done about filesharers but putting the record companies in charge of our Internet connections? That's just a bad idea for everyone involved.

I hate the whinging cow with a passion. Her latest is to 'squeeze' the filesharers... LOL? Who are the music industry to decide that they should be judge of who does and who doesn't have an Internet connection anyway? If it can be proved in a court beyond reasonable doubt then that is fair enough but these days with wireless and the like it is not so provable. Coupled with the fact that these guys are pretty unscrupulous, the proposed laws by Lord Mandleson must be put to a stop before they actually happen. Consider earlier this year they were sending out letters to the tune of "Pay us X thousands for your illegal file sharing or go to court". The music biz knows full well that they wouldn't have a case that would hold up in court so they resorted to blackmail. Even some OAP's who didn't even HAVE an Internet connection got such threatening letters, these people in charge of our Internet connections? I sincerely hope not.

They haven't fixed this at all (and don't plan to). But as a test, try installing a client machine without SP3 and see if that works, if so, then this is your issue. If not, you might have something else wrong (ontop of this glitch probably). I am assuming you're using XP clients?

Don't know if you ever got any resolution... There is a bug (microsoft call it a feature) in SP3 that breaks folder redirection with windows XP for people with non-admin accounts. If you go to a CLIENT workstation and rightclick-properties fdeploy.dll (in system32) and go to the version tab and click File Version.... There's two main versions of the DLL we've seen.... 5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) this is the DLL from windows SP2. 5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2113) this is the DLL from windows SP3. What you need to do is replace the SP3 dll with the SP2 one, but it's a bit fiddly. Firstly, there's a folder called DLLCache, it resides in system32 but is HIDDEN to everyone (even admin) you'll have to type it into your explorer browser. This contains a copy of cruical system files. If you just replace the fdeploy.dll in system32, moments later the copy from dllcache will come to replace it. So the obvious solution is to just copy the SP2 fdeploy to both folders right? Well, it gets a bit technical here. If you straight installed SP3, it will totally deny you this and your OS will ask for the SP3 disk to restore the SP3 dll from. The solution is to install SP2. UPGRADE to SP3, then quickly get in there and replace the dll in both fdeploy and system32 with the SP2 one. A nightmare, but should solve MOST folder redirect issues assuming you've got all your AD configuration correct. Hope that helps people with the same prob!

To answer my own question: You have to make bin/sis900.pxe in order for the sis cards to properly do the chaining. For some reason the tutorial mentioned before uses undionly.kpxe which SHOULD work but doesn't (according to the chaps at etherboot). This overcomes the chain problem, but will introduce a new problem. FOG sends an interrupt to the BIOS to choose the next available device, but gPXE picks it up and attempts a boot but fails! so you end up going gPXE->FOG->gPXE. This is a totally different issue to the DHCP thing though However, my problem seems to have been rectified by eliminating gPXE from the chain altogether but I am not entirely sure how...

Having troubles doing this chaining stuff myself. We have some of these SIS cards and they're driving me loopy. On clients that we don't have such cards we have FOG working like a *dream* (multicast and all). However the SIS card machines..... We've managed to get gPXE to boot on them, but gPXE doesn't find the dhcp server for round 2 of the chain (it just sits there going DHCP............ Connection Timed Out) Clearly its getting hold of DHCP for the first round, and these clients are booting off a different config via DHCP to end up with gPXE instead of pxelinux.0 (fog) but I'm just not getting the hand-over. Servers = TFTP/Fog on one machine and DHCP is windows based. Followed the guide on the gPXE website and all seems in order... Any ideas?

The result of this is clearly going to end all piracy everywherere FOREVER just as the bigwigs planned. Just like the legal action taken against napster did.

I personally love the homepage 'it' made. epic lulz.

I disagree, TES is neither smutty nor funny.

Or, TES is plagued by dumbasses? I'd quite like to see what those guys have to say about themselves. I imagine it's something far less impressive like: "I've been teaching all my life. That's it."

Not me and millions of others in a similar condition. My savings are reduced to almost non-existance since interest rates plummeted. I can't afford a house, and likely never will no matter how much they want to make it easy to pay off Mortgages, I want my savings back k, thx. Skin of teeth, maybe. What I do like about that video is how he mentioned that Brown was a lying swine to Europe and the UK all in one brush.

My advice: Get a nice clean LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) or WAMP (Guess) setup and start typing: index.php echo "HELLO"; ?> World Step one is to learn about breaking in/out of PHP and regular HTML as highlighted above. Then visit PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor and start doing stuff. General programming things to learn (before you even touch database stuff) should be as follows: Variables ( Storing data for use later ) and Types ( There IS a difference between an Integer, Float and Strings, but PHP makes it quite transparent. Arrays (Lots of variables stored in 'one variable' as a sort of list) Operators (Bitwise, Logical and Mathematical e.g. comparing variables or adding things) Loops: for, while, foreach Functions ( Segments of code that can be re-called over and over ). For what it's worth, I'm SOLID at PHP but I never ever picked up a book on it but you should learn to walk before you can run Doing is more important than reading because the MORE you do it, the more you learn, much faster than reading books (php.net is the ultimate reference for the language, better than any book IMO). So sit down and start coding. Below is a little tutorial PHP I wrote for a colleague, you can work on that to learn some basic programming stuff if you need direction. It has a few things wrong with it, and has tasks to do. It's worth reading the code over to get a feel for it, it's not too hectic, but does have a few gotchas. users.csv bob,geoff,david,jane,jill,peter,adrian,robert,sarah,brian,lucy index.php // TASK! figure out why the PHP program doesnt work! function get_file($filename) { // TASK! // what if the file didn't exist? // could we check if it did first? // think about the function at // [url]http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.file-exists.php[/url] // if the file doesn't exist, kick up an error message $filehandle = fopen($filename,"r"); // opens the file for reading $filecontents = ""; // empty text // use a while loop to keep grabbing data from the file while(!feof($filehandle) ) // feof() checks to see if we're at the end of the file, what do you think the ! operator is for? { $filecontents .= fgets($filehandle); // gets a line from the file. What do you think .= does in regards to strings? } fclose($filehandle); // close the file return $filecontents; // return to the calling function the text we have loaded } function read_csv($filename) { $csvdata = get_file($filename); // call the above function to get the CSV data $data_array = split(",", $csvdata); // split the data up using , as a delimiter return $data_array; } // TASK!! // using temporary variables and loops // try sorting the data into alphabetical order // try following a bubble sort algorithm to do this // [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_sort[/url] // below has been started for you // try to finish it off // this function may help you: // [url]http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.strcmp.php[/url] // comment this function describing what each bit does // so you understand how the sort works. // DO NOT use PHP's in-built sorting functions to do this! // this will teach you the process of structuring data and moving it around. function BubbleSort( &$items ) { $temp = ""; $size = count( $items ); for( $i = 0; $i < $size-1; $i++ ) { for( $j = 0; $j < $size - 1 - $i; $j++ ) { // if( ... ) // { // ... // } } } } // ADVANCED!! // in BubbleSort( &$items ) // any idea what the & is used for? // think about the data, and the fact that we don't // return any values in BubbleSort // how do you think the memory is being accessed? // the following may give you an idea: // // [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointer[/url] // [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_%28C%2B%2B%29[/url] ////////////// PROGRAM STARTS HERE!! /////////////////// $data = read_csv("users.doc"); // get the data from the CSV file // count() returns the number of elements in an array // any ideas what this loop does? for($i=0;$i{ echo $data[$i] . " "; } // output the sorted data echo "Sorted Data"; BubbleSort($data); for($i=0;$i{ echo $data[$i] . " "; } // Super-Advanced!!! // implement a quicksort algorithm in order to // speed up processing time! // // what are the up-sides and down-sides of both algorithms? ?> Let us know how you get on and if you need any tips

Quoted for truth! I have a studio style setup at home (I produce dance music in my spare time) and I have a pair of Mackie HR624 monitors (sound quality is incredible). I can boost them quite loud, but if I overstep the mark the speakers LED's will flash red that I'm overdoing it and cut the volume down for me. Big big money though, I wouldn't spend such cash for student use tbh!

They do when they want to!

Depends HOW North West you are. Ultimately, car is cheaper (I mean... whyyyy?) but if you contemplate trains you'll soon see they're a huge rip-off. Planes are actually much cheaper, and sometimes even flights that leave the country and re-enter again to another national airport are cheaper than direct national flights! Cheapest solution is to start walking several weeks in advance but isn't so practical

Speed is one thing, but you break one cable and everything fails, making the infrastructure as frail as a dumb terminal network, or worse: token ring. As for bandwidth, we are severely behind a lot of the rest of the world. A lot of Europe is way ahead of us, and if you're talking about Japan, 100mbs+ to the home for most people. I wonder if they're entirely reliant on the cloud? I highly doubt this.

Perhaps someone should point this very obvious issue out to the mass media?

So you deny history? Brill! Yes, religion should have no place in politics, but tell that to the Lords Spiritual...

Provided that it fit in with what they were saying, the church were happy for scientists to come up with stuff for them. God forbid ™ that they find out something that goes against the grain! Death to the infidel! Oh, doesn't mean that Christianity spawned science, it just means that they sponsored it in a highly biased manner so that they may use it for their own diabolical ends to convince the uneducated peasants that god is for real, even though they still don't know for sure